We are a group of people in the United States who work to abolish all forms of involuntary psychiatry, including psychiatric incarceration in hospitals, forced administration of psychiatric drugs, unwanted treatment and coercive interventions. We advocate for safe, humane, effective ways of helping people who are going through hard times. We are made up of people with lived experience, psychiatric survivors, providers, attorneys, authors and others. We know involuntary psychiatry has harmed a lot of people and that it is on the rise in some places. We also know we are not alone. The United Nations, the World Health Organization, the disability rights, psychiatric survivor and peer movements throughout the world, investigative journalists and dissident mental health professionals, are with us in this fight. This is not a necessary evil. There is an urgent need to take direct, effective action to abolish involuntary psychiatry – here in the United States as well as in other countries. We hope to gather supporters of abolition, show the strength of this position, and find others to work with on developing effective campaigns.